What's your strong suit?

[Guest]

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[SEVERUSMAX]

I think, and I could be wrong, but creating motives for actions and a peek inside the minds of the main characters is one of mine. Others might dissent, of course.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

If I have a real strength, it's in the descriptive prose. My stories are very vivid in my head, and I feel i do a good job of painting those scenes for a reader in the same straong colors.

My weakness is dialogue. Always has been and most likely will always be. IRL I am very quiet and shy and I speak with a pronounced archaic pattern and a southern accent. So I don't really know ho wpeople talk and thus my dialogue is often very stilted.

 

[cloudy]

If I have a real strength, it's in the descriptive prose. My stories are very vivid in my head, and I feel i do a good job of painting those scenes for a reader in the same straong colors.

My weakness is dialogue. Always has been and most likely will always be. IRL I am very quiet and shy and I speak with a pronounced archaic pattern and a southern accent. So I don't really know ho wpeople talk and thus my dialogue is often very stilted.

pfffft.

I think dialogue is one of my strengths, although all my characters speak with a southern accent.

 

[Liar]

Anything but productivity.

 

[wishfulthinking]

Heat

 

[BlackShanglan]

I don't give up. It's never wholly finished.

 

[elsol]

I think in stories.

And I'm a fantastic editor... cruel to my children.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[mlady_france]

convaying an emotion. Perhaps the expression of emotion.

it's certianly not spelling

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

Heat

Always a useful quality.....

 

[SEVERUSMAX]

I don't give up. It's never wholly finished.

Fortitude, one of the 4 Stoic virtues....very good.

 

[zeb1094]

Hearts, four no trump!

 

[Guest]

 

[FallingToFly]

There are great plot writers, great scenery and action writers, character writers...

What are you? What do you feel is the strongest point of your writing? And why?

For me It has to be the characters and the dialogue. Without them the plot is moot. A story has to live and breath and it can only do that through the characters.

Details, descriptions, and tragedy. That I'm good at, everything else is just fluff, and it shows.

 

[neonlyte]

Charactors - which is just as well, I'm hopeless at describing them. Let their words and actions do that for them. I suppose I'd like the reader to assume something of the character I try to portray, so I'm big on emotions and feelings, seeking a degree of empathy between the reader and the tale.

 

[neonlyte]

Details, descriptions, and tragedy. That I'm good at, everything else is just fluff, and it shows.

Don't put yourself down - there is poetry in your tragedy.

 

[Guest]

I like suits.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b318/sweetsubsarahh/catsuit.jpg


I think my story touch is light, playful, loving sex.

Or wild, rough sex.

Or -

Well - perhaps that is just me.

 

[FallingToFly]

Don't put yourself down - there is poetry in your tragedy.

It wasn't a put down, really. I just don't think in terms of romance, or playful, and so everything I write (well, everything that's any good) has that touch of tragedy just waiting to happened, or already passed.

I envy some of the writers on Lit for their ability to take a story and make it so much fun that you forget everything else but how much you sides ache from laughing. One of these days, I'm going to figure out how they do it, and then... well, I probably still won't do it. I like my angst, and in the end, that's what matters!

 

[neonlyte]

It wasn't a put down, really. I just don't think in terms of romance, or playful, and so everything I write (well, everything that's any good) has that touch of tragedy just waiting to happened, or already passed.

I envy some of the writers on Lit for their ability to take a story and make it so much fun that you forget everything else but how much you sides ache from laughing. One of these days, I'm going to figure out how they do it, and then... well, I probably still won't do it. I like my angst, and in the end, that's what matters!

No, I see that (first para). But you veil tragedy in beauty, the interplay of words, tight evocative passages where there is no place to slip even a blade. There is rhythm in your writing, consciously or unconsciously, that flows poetically.

It might even be your writing style (second para) that prevents you from finding levity. A light style is generally more open, an interplay between characters and settings rather than words, and it's from words you draw strength, from what I've seen.

 

[AutumnWriter]

I like the narrator to define the characters and whatever conflict is within them. The dialogue serves to confirm the narrator's observations and add coloration to the characters.

 

[Recidiva]

What I love is dialogue, so most often I'll start with it. That's how a story starts, around one little well-turned phrase that I think should get out into the world and grow into something fun.

 

[neonlyte]

What I love is dialogue, so most often I'll start with it. That's how a story starts, around one little well-turned phrase that I think should get out into the world and grow into something fun.

Clearly... though your style has changed, in Convergence you flesh out the dialogue with substanially more than description. It is a minor masterpiece worth seeking out for any writer bent on expressing the chemisty of relationships.

 

[Recidiva]

Clearly... though your style has changed, in Convergence you flesh out the dialogue with substanially more than description. It is a minor masterpiece worth seeking out for any writer bent on expressing the chemisty of relationships.

Well, if that doesn't beat compliments all to hell.

Thank you so much.

I've tried to alter things to appeal to the audience here. My style has definitely changed from me knowing the backstory to trying to fill in some implied blanks. Thank you for noticing, and the use of the word masterpiece.

 

[zeb1094]

I do have this charcoal grey pin strip that has with stood the ravages of time.
Then there is the traditional blue blazer, but that's not really a suit.

 

[Svenskaflicka]

There are great plot writers, great scenery and action writers, character writers...

What are you? What do you feel is the strongest point of your writing? And why?

For me It has to be the characters and the dialogue. Without them the plot is moot. A story has to live and breath and it can only do that through the characters.

Dialogue. Definitely. Also, I think I'm good at coming up with plots. And I tend to be somewhat poetic in my language when I write. Long, run-on sentences with special sentence building.